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retro computing 2024.18

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retro computing 2024.18

(date: 2024-05-03 22:49:21)


Blade Runner

date: 2024-05-03, from: Digital Antiquarian

Blade Runner has set me thinking about the notion of a “critical consensus.” Why should we have such a thing at all, and why should it change over time? Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, about a police officer cum […]

https://www.filfre.net/2024/05/blade-runner/


Archive Edition 27:2 reviewed

date: 2024-05-02, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News

Archive Magazine Volume 27 issue 2 was available at Wakefield and should be on its way or already arrived if you are a subscriber.

http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2066.html


WROCC May 2024 meeting - Gerph talks games

date: 2024-05-01, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News

Wakefield’s May speaker was Charles Ferguson, aka Gerph, talking about his past and present work creating games for RISC OS.

http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2069.html


IBM RISC System/6000 Family

date: 2024-05-01, from: Computer ads from the Past

Just when PowerSeeker thought they had nowhere to go…

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/ibm-risc-system6000-family


Plus Post: Rockwell AIM 65

date: 2024-04-29, from: Computer ads from the Past

The Company Rockwell International has been around for quite a while. Willard Rockwell started the company in 1919 to sell a newly designed truck axle bearing. Over the years, Rockwell acquired businesses in many different fields, including defense, industrial electronics, automotive components, and more. They built both the Apollo spacecraft and the Space Shuttle program. In 1967, they merged with North American Aviation. Before the merger, North American Aviation had developed a

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/plus-post-rockwell-aim-65


WROCC comes face to face with Doom, thanks to Gerph

date: 2024-04-29, from: RiscOS Story

Okay, it’s a talk, and it’ll also feature Hexen and Heretic Coming just days after this year’s Wakefield Show, the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting will take place on Wednesday, 1st May, and the guest speaker will be Charles Ferguson, aka Gerph. He’ll be talking about the work he did to port Doom to RISC OS, which was during his university days, and later became the enhanced Doom+, which was then followed by ports of Heretic and Hexen. And more recently, updated versions of the games, allowing…

https://www.riscository.com/2024/wrocc-comes-face-to-face-with-doom-thanks-to-gerph/


VirtuDesk 1.14 released

date: 2024-04-29, from: RiscOS Story

If you sometimes find your RISC OS desktop a bit cluttered (which speaking personally would make it much like my real desktop) one solution is to close a few windows (or in the case of my actual desk, put some stuff away). Another solution is to run a piece of software that expands the size of the desktop beyond the visible area shown on screen, and move some of your windows into other spaces, ready for access when necessary. One such piece of software is VirtuDesk, by David Llewellyn-Jones, aka…

https://www.riscository.com/2024/virtudesk-1-14/


WROCC May 2024 meeting on wednesday - Gerph talks games

date: 2024-04-29, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News

The May 2024 WROCC meeting welcomes Gerph who will be talking about games he has written/ported on RISC OS.

http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2047.html


Upgrading your RISC OS system to 5.30

date: 2024-04-28, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News

It has been a little while (4 years or so) since we last updated our systems to a stable release. So here what I did on my Titanium which is running RISC OS 5.28

http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2067.html


Wakefield Show 2024 in Pictures

date: 2024-04-28, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News

Many thanks to our secret spy and roving reporter (taking time off his duties on the Elesar/ROOL stand) to take some pictures. This is what he saw….

http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2065.html


April 2024 News Summary

date: 2024-04-28, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News

Some things we noticed this month. What did you see?

http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2043.html